The Islamic world has long seen drugs as sinful stains upon society, and though in many cases the use and transfer of drugs has gone unhindered, many governments have cracked down with lethality upon drug users and traffickers. But in Sudan, the urge to find an alternative to the more widely condemned drugs drove the government to find a new alternative drug which would not carry any of the previous bad history. Breakthrough was achieved in 2003, when the first Janjaweed was grown and planted throughout the Darfur region of Sudan.